Most of these migrants face harsh sometimes life threatening conditions in the line of work.

She is one of thousand others who worked in strenuous conditions and says her ‘hands were bruised from hard work.’

My hands were bruised from the hard work.”

Her father, said he did not know what to think when his daughter emerged unannounced from a taxi outside their home in Addis Ababa last week.

Abiye Yefru, Birtukan’s father said: “I didn’t hold my tears.